radiosynthesis, okay.

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@cd0 omgwtfbbq

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deilghtfully incorrect explanation of photosynthesis

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#monsterdon These tomatoes cannot be eaten... they are... "ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!!!” And you thought that too. Deep down inside, you saw that tomato and you heard the soft thump of rolling killer tomatoes. You can lie to yourself, but you can't lie to the rest of us.

Hi I'm Dr. Ed Wainright, and this ... is Biography.
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ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES wait wrong movie

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Ha! It's Peter Graves.

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Hello! You startled me with your handsomness

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I assume the car phone was worth more than 10 times the car.
#monsterdon

Somewhat surprised the reporter has a phone in her car as I didn't know they had car phones in the 50s.

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So this time it's the USDA? Is the mad scientist a random GS-11?

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is a mad agriculturist to blame??

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"what's the score, norm?"
"20-10 Packers"

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She has a carphone!
THis dame is perky! And plucky! She's got some sass.

'Wow, a ’phone in her car!!!?'

Suddenly wondering if the car-phones then were converted Second World War and Korean War mobile radio comms units.

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"A town of 150 people just doesn't disappear"

spoken like someone new to #Monsterdon

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That felt like Darkplace

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Reporter lady climbs a hill and takes a picture of... something. We don't see what it is, but she is very Shocked and Appalled!

Then an army guy materializes out of the ether and snatches her camera. She appeals to his manager, an army captain, who likes her because he read a book she wrote about Korea (probably the war). He explains that the town of Ludlow has vanished overnight and we don't have any bodies.

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@xerozohar I'm a surgeon, not an entomologist! #Monsterdon

the cross insignia all of these guys is wearing is wigging me out. I guess it's supposed to be a unit emblem, what they had lying around in Costuming. or this unit has a LOT of medics.

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@CactuarJoe dammit bones!

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We think maybe it was some kind of Backrooms thing

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#monsterdon Captain has a beautiful butt-trench-chin. I think Luke Skywalker wants to fly into that deep crevasse and shoot his blasters into the exhaust vent, causing his face to explode like Praxis in Star Trek. KABOOM.

The Beginning of the Karen

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@CactuarJoe you expect Bert Gordon to respect the audience?

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Oh we get a retro police reporting center in this #monsterdon. In Wolfen we saw the 1980s police fusion center, in the Godzilla movies we see the anti-kaiju meeting rooms, in this movie we get a guy talking to a bunch of speakers, very retro.

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#monsterdon There are no mountains in Illinois. But we smile and nod anyways.

Spoiler: They confiscate her camera.
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With a car that big, she could probably take out any monster she ran into, including most kaiju.

#Monsterdon

Next two cops are on a patrol, presumably looking for a nice restaurant. They find the car where the teens were making out in earlier but it has been squished. They suspect homicide and dutifully report the squished car via their cop phones and a swarm of investigators appear.

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Um, I'm not car 88, I have a name. Its McKinsey. But you won't need to know that for the rest of the movie because I'm going to be dead.
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@cocaine_owlbear i just picked up the 4k blu-ray of THEM! love that movie

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Havana-na-na. we got grasshoppers in havana-na-na

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This is stock redshirt 456, making my last words, over.
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Launching my #monsterdon thread for #BeginningOfTheEnd ! Mute the hash tag if you don't want to see me and others make all the post about an old monster movie.

#GrasshoppersVsPostCards

See you're getting water intrusion in your credits, that's what's causing the warping. I can fix it for you, but it won't be cheap.
#monsterdon sterdon

(just kidding, the whole cast will be played by Martin Landau)

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Two 30 year old teenagers making out.

They were doing what the humans call...
:: checks notes ::
"necking"
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And there it is folks - The End of the Beginning

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All Natural Farm to Table Baby

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I wonder if the couple survived the opening

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Ahh - a young Peter Graves! That's cool.

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Hello, yes, I'm here for my Eschaton. #Monsterdon

Ha! It's the classic couple-in-a-car start to the monster movie this week.

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THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR SEXXING, YOU ROTTEN KIDS!

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Let's fucking gooooo!

#Monsterdon

OK, you just lie down again...

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Lobo cooks.
He gardens.
He henchmans.

I want a Lobo!

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Can you imagine being the actor who played "dude in chair staring" and putting that on your resume?

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@ohiofi oh whew, i thought.... nuthin! #monsterdon

She had a super bad cold and was trying to say gladly to the death ray sentence except it kept coming out as 'glandly' so they put it into her hormones instead

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Did women just uh... let doctors do that kind of thing?

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How could this have happened? I took every precaution when I pointed that powerful radiation source directly at her face.

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#monsterdon The gland’s batteries don’t come fully charged, apparently.

Why is his assistant so supportive of his obvious failures?

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I took every precaution! But she still has radiation burns from the massive amounts of radiation I fired at her!

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I want that machine in my bedroom.

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ooooo, the gland is sessile!

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We need more clamps, goddamit!

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Uh oh, creeping in a girls room

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belatedly ^_^

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Mad scientist gunna Tocata and Fuge..

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It's one of the rare times when I'm in the mood for music. SpooooOOOoooky music.

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@Blort that's what I play every night to relax with

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In the category of "growing giant vegetables has Consequences" I give #BeginningOfTheEnd 5 out of 5 stars. It did pretty well on the Food of the Gods Bingo card, though not quite a #MonsterdonBingo.

Our leads --- a reporter with a war experience and an entomologist --- often sound like they know what they're talking about. The first third when they figure out what's happening is pretty good. The middle third when lots of military stock footage is composited with slightly grainy enlargements of grasshopper mainly marks time until a scientific solution is found. In the last, and shortest, third it works. All the bugs jump in the lake.

+1 for Chicago
-1 for killing a sympathetic deaf guy
+3 for crude but believeable effects

All in all, a watchable #monsterdon.
Thanks @Taweret for hosting. Thanks @cherizilla for the bingo card archive. Thanks @miru for Ultraman and the Bugs.

Tocata and fuge? LOL. Really?!

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Gedro is dead!

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I like how it's frame like the anatomy model is part of the conversation #monsterdon

I like the reaction shot of the visible man

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The 17th gland... for invisibility juice

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@Lazarou @CardboardRobot I'd watch that movie! #monsterdon

@springdiesel Also true!

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Here comes the Horse

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I wonder how much product that criminal uses to make his hair that shiny.
"Double Homocide" brand of hair oil?

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I may be biased towards black and white films set in Chicago, but I thought that was pretty decent. An underused reporter, but a good use of big menacing grasshoppers. Thanks, @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for some good midwestern #Monsterdon fun.

"How do you like your room?" "It's nice, except for this yellow wallpaper". #monsterdon

And a big thank you to @Taweret for tonight's choice of feature. You couldn't go wrong with giant atomic insects in the 50s.

I wasn't watching this one as intently, but I believe we had no smoking and no coffee.

Death count of several thousand, mostly off-screen.

Annoying repetitive sound (the "Grasshopper Screech" for what seemed to be the entire last half of the film.

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Thanks to @Taweret for a fine evening of #Monsterdon

I feel that filled the bill.

RE: https://retro.pizza/@CactuarJoe/116989524082937424

Was The Beginning of the End bad? Yes.
Was it bad bad? Eeeeh. It was kinda dull but not horrible. Mostly it was cheap and predictable. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Even the part where they were going to bomb chicago but decide not to at the last possible moment had no tension.

There's so many movies where that's a tense and dramatic moment. Here it was about as exciting as ordering a pizza. They just called the pilot and told him to go home, and he did.

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that was a silly one.

Thanks, everyone for the fun #Monstoparty! Excellent hosting by @Taweret and trivia by @JoeWynne and @cherizilla has a whole legacy of bingos for us...

hope to see you next week!

@Bluedepth Yabbut she doesn't flout ist! #monsterdon

At least I learned some trivia about locusts and grasshoppers.

As always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for the bingo, @JoeWynne for the drink recipe and trivia, @ryan for the live stream, @paco for data analysis, @combatwombat for the replay, and all of you for making it awesome!

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#monsterdon Time for watch double feature #theUnearthly

I gotta run but thanks 'yall, great #monsterdon ing with you all. Thanks @Taweret for a great movie. Thanks Miru for the stream. ( I gotta find your real handle...)

@klu9

https://ohai.social/@klu9/116964501577056724

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They saved Chicago, but still can't have a night game at Wrigley.

They would have had a tough time getting through Racine, because S C Johnson and Co, the makers of Raid! are there.

Thank you, @Taweret.

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@davesdogmaggie

In the sequel, Middle of the End

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My apologies, but:
On the poster John Carradine hates to see her go, but loves to watch her leave.

#miru
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#Monsterdon Well, that was a very by-the-numbers "Them!" rip-off with no real surprises or interesting moments at all.

The bug photography, and compositing was ok, but it never looked amazing.

And they never bothered to build a giant bug, not even for the one trapped in a cage! So we never actually saw the bugs do anything. All the carnage happened off screen. We just see them walking around.

Gotta say, the main feature of the poster for the next movie of the double feature is ......ass.

#Monsterdon

Whee! That was fun!

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Thanks @Taweret & the gang for the fun watch!

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So the bugs won, right? They turned Chicago into a public transportation superhub we all live happily ever after?

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So they all just effed off into the water? Someone else's problem, I guess.

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So they got big by eating radioactive vegetables. Now they'll get eaten by sharks, leading to radioactive mega sharks. #monsterdon

MONSTERDON FOREVEEEEERRRR!!!!

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Missed opportunity for the end credits to say "The End Of The Beginning Of The End" #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

That movie was good for people who don’t like surprises

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